09年二级笔译实务题的英译汉.doc

刚做了下09年二级笔译实务题的英译汉，贴上来，希望对准备翻译实践的同学起点作用：There was, last week, a glimmer of hope in the world food crisis. Expecting a bumper harvest, Ukraine relaxed restrictions on exports. Overnight, global wheat prices fell by 10 percent.上周，世界粮食危机呈现出一丝希望。乌克兰粮食有望丰收，因此放松了粮食出口限制，全球小麦价格一夜之间下降了10%。By contrast, traders in Bangkok quote rice prices around $1,000 a ton, up from $460 two months ago.与此相反，曼谷粮食商的粮食收购价格从两个月前的460美元上涨到1000美元/吨。Such is the volatility of todays markets. We do not know how high food prices might go, nor how far they could fall. But one thing is certain: We have gone from an era of plenty to one of scarcity. Experts agree that food prices are not likely to return to the levels the world had grown accustomed to any time soon.当今粮食市场便是如此风云变幻。我们无法知晓粮食价格会走多高，也不知道会跌到哪里，但有一点是肯定的：我们已经从粮食充裕时代到了粮食紧缺时代。专家一致认为全球粮食价格短期内不会恢复到正常水平。Imagine the situation of those living on less than $1 a day - the “bottom billion,” the poorest of the worlds poor. Most live in Africa, and many might typically spend two-thirds of their income on food.想一想上亿的世界底层贫最困人民他们的日均生活费用低于1美元，大部分生活在非洲，而且许多人要将收入的三分之二用于吃饭生存。In Liberia last week, I heard how people have stopped purchasing imported rice by the bag. Instead, they increasingly buy it by the cup, because thats all they can afford.上周，我听说利比里亚人购买进口大米不再用袋装，而是有越来越多的人用杯子买，他们能买的起的也只有几杯子大米了。Traveling though West Africa, I found good reason for optimism. In Burkina Faso, I saw a government working to import drought resistant seeds and better manage scarce water supplies, helped by nations like Brazil. In Ivory Coast, we saw a womens cooperative running a chicken farm set up with UN funds. The project generated income - and food - for villagers in ways that can easily be replicated.但是走到西非境内，我有理由开始乐观。我看到布基诺法索政府在巴西等国家的帮助下，进口抗旱型种子，并采取更好的办法管理稀缺的水源。在象牙海岸，我们看到妇女与联合国基金合作开了一座养鸡场。鸡场不仅创收，也为村民提供食物，而且此项目的运作模式容易复制。Elsewhere, I saw yet another womens group slowly expanding their local agricultural production, with UN help. Soon they will replace World Food Program rice with their own home-grown produce, sufficient to cover the needs of their school feeding program.在其它地方，我还看到另一个妇女团体在联合国的帮助下，正慢慢地扩大当地农业生产量。在不久的将来，他们自力更生的粮食便可替代世界粮食计划署提供的粮食，足够满足学校共餐计划的需要。These are home-grown, grass-roots solutions for grass-roots problems - precisely the kind of solutions that Africa needs.正是这些自力更生的草根方案，解决了最基本的生存问题-这些正是非洲需要的方法。刚整理了些具有中国特色词组的表达，和大家分享：不正之风：bad practice / unhealthy tendency制黄贩黄: make and traffic in pornographic stuff成人教育和职业教育: adult education and vocational education硕博连读：Doctoral students without a masters degree 夜大：evening university网络教育：network education远程函授:distance education专科: Junior Professional College专升本: from Junior Professional College to Undergraduate College废除干部终身制: abolish de facto-long tenure of leading cadres多极化趋势:multi-polarization trend对内搞活，对外开放: invigorate the domestic economy and be open to the outside world城市居民社区服务: Urban community service医疗保健制度:medical care system城乡户籍制度：household registration system打白条：issue IOUs(illegitimate promissory notes)党外人士：Non-Party people中译英要避免陷进，也就是那些似是而非的概念，如果直译过来，译文会很荒唐。举几个例子体会下：资源节约型resource-saving (错)resource-efficient (对)信息公开information openess (错)information disclosure (对)24小时热线服务24 hour hotline service (错)24 hour available hotline service (对)城市功能定位city function positioning (错)city orientation (对)大家体会体会，可以和我探讨发几个句子翻译练习，简单句子也考察功底：1. I am no wiser than before.2. We are here today and gone tomorrow.3. To remember for years, to remember with tears.4. My uncle remembered me on my birthdays5. This is a mere apology for soup6. Catch me doing it! 7. He is a man of family8. The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it9. There is nothing like jogging as a means of exercise.10. Thats a/my boy.11. 亲兄弟明算账12. 实践出真知13. 不看好14. 我说不行就不行上面答案：1. I am no wiser than before.我还是不懂2. We are here today and gone tomorrow.人生朝露3. To remember for years, to remember with tears.忆当年，自伤怀。4. My uncle remembered me on my birthdays我叔叔送了我生日礼物。5. This is a mere apology for soup不成其为汤的汤/勉强称作汤。6. Catch me doing it! 我绝不会做这种事/我才不会做这种事7. He is a man of family他是一个出生世家的人/世家子弟8. The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it。缺乏的时候才知道它的宝贵9. There is nothing like jogging as a means of exercise.慢跑是运动的最好的方式。10. Thats a/my boy.好样的！真不错！11. 亲兄弟明算账Even reckoning makes long friends12. 实践出真知Experience is the father of wisdom13. 不看好take a dim view of14. 我说不行就不行I say no and I mean no给大家一些句子练练笔，先做做看，我回头给答案1. She couldnt have come at a better time.2. She has been a widow only six months.3. I believe the speech was needlessly stubborn.4. The Macedonian argument has a Greek dimension too.5. The Englishman feels no less deeply than any other nationality.6. From a physical standpoint, there ought to be as many colors as there are different wave lengths.7. But the next century well be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms.8. As a human being, we should demonstrate our intellectual and moral superiority by respecting others for who they are - instead of rejecting them for who/what they are not.9. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come - with the people who respect you for who you are.10. Public opinion plays a vital and healthy role in the political realm.11. I am sure that it would change the situation if you are kind enough to lend support to me.12. There is a mix of confrontation and cooperation between them13. Law enforcement cannot responsibly stand aloof14. He who idles away the time is nothing but a living death.15. No greater misfortune befalls a country than to be governed by a tyrant.16. He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in rapid succession.17. The expectation of collision informed British frontier policy in this period.18. Every day now, the suppression of truth and the organizing of public ignorance shame journalism.19. I walked to the ticket counter. When the ticket-seller saw me, her otherwise attractive face turned sour, violently so.20. Accident may put a decisive blunderer in the right, but eternal defeat21. In their rush, these companies have neglected the hardest part of doing business in China: the people part. The result is that many have jeopardized their performance in the long run.把前面句子翻译的参考答案发给大家看看：1. She couldnt have come at a better time. 她来得正是时候。2. She has been a widow only six months. 她的丈夫去世至今不过半年。3. I believe the speech was needlessly stubborn. 我认为那篇讲话口气强硬，大可不必。4. The Macedonian argument has a Greek dimension too. 马其顿之争同希腊也有关系。5. The Englishman feels no less deeply than any other nationality. 英国人同其他民族一样，也有丰富的感情。6. From a physical standpoint, there ought to be as many colors as there are different wave lengths. 从物理学的观点来看，不同的波长有多少种，颜色就有多少种。7. As a human being, we should demonstrate our intellectual and moral superiority by respecting others for who they are - instead of rejecting them for who/what they are not.作为人，我们应该不管他人的身份如何都尊重他们，从而显示出自己高超的智慧和道德，而不要因为他们没有某种身份或地位而排斥他们。8. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come - with the people who respect you for who you are.发现自我，如实地表现自我，你自然会为人们所喜欢为那些尊重你的真正个性的人们所喜欢。10. Public opinion plays a vital and healthy role in the political realm. 舆论在政治领域起着极其重要的、有益的作用。11. I am sure that it would change the situation if you are kind enough to lend support to me.我相信如果你非常好心能撑（帮）我一把的话，情况就不一样了。12. There is a mix of confrontation and cooperation between them他们之间既有对抗，又有合作。13. Law enforcement cannot responsibly stand aloof.司法部门如果对此不闻不问，那就是失职。14. He who idles away the time is nothing but a living death. 虚度年华者，虽生犹死。15. No greater misfortune befalls a country than to be governed by a tyrant.国之大难莫过于暴君当道。16. He had a disconcerting habit of expressing contradictory ideas in rapid succession. 他有一种习惯让人受不